Philosophy is indispensable for assessing the significance and dangers of current problems, including artificial intelligence, challenges to democracy, climate change, consciousness, and ...

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford 1900–1960, by Nikhil Krishnan (Random House, 400 pp., $28.99) The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

One of the most influential philosophers and cognitive scientists, Daniel C. Dennett, passed away this week. He was one of the first contemporary philosophers to take naturalism really seriously, i.e.

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This interview was edited for length and clarity. In his new book “Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy With My Kids,” Scott Hershovitz, professor of law and philosophy at the ...

LONDON — Bryan Magee, a philosopher, writer and broadcaster who sought to bring philosophy to a mass audience in Britain through radio and television, died on Friday in Oxford, England. He was 89. His ...